Stock markets around the world are in recovery mode. Fear and panic over the spread of the corona virus is fading and greed is returning. COVID-19 has kept the world in suspense. After hesitant action by governments in Europe and North America, although curfews were imposed in...
Mario Hose
|
April 30, 2020
|
Have you read Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged ? The main theme of the book is that – overwhelmed by growing statism – entrepreneurs at one point say finally “basta!” and announce a strike. The symbolic Atlas who carries the world, sh...
Arkadiusz Sieron
|
April 13, 2020
|
Despite evidence of a slowing economy, shipments of raw materials are gliding across Chinese docks at a torrid pace, especially metals, which form the backbone of China’s industrial supply chain. In fact a recent report shows that, while Chinese imports are...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
September 27, 2019
|
As I sit here on a Thursday evening, contemplating the logic behind my most recent additions to a highly tentative short position on the SPY:US (the exchange-traded fund [ETF] tracking the S&P 500), I am doing everything in my power to not take my quote machine and proj...
Streetwise Reports
|
June 30, 2020
|
The U.S. manufacturing sector contracted for the fifth straight month in December, with the monthly reading from the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) hitting its weakest point in more than 10 years. The purchasing manager’s index (PMI) fell to 47.2,...
Frank Holmes
|
January 8, 2020
|
This year at AOTH we have tackled a number of reasons for gold and silver’s rise, aiming to explain “in layman’s terms” what is behind the seemingly relentless move upward - despite the trend-busting reality of a high US ...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
October 3, 2019
|
As is well known, the future is traded on the stock exchange and for this reason investors are always looking for the right time to start a new investment. It can be political decisions or new technological trends that cause sales and profits to soar. In the case of Covid-19, ...
Mario Hose
|
September 8, 2020
|
Back in May, AngloGold Ashanti announced plans to sell its last remaining gold mine in South Africa, the Mponeng mine southwest of Johannesburg. Despite extremely rich 10 grams per tonne ore, “the challenges of making money at Mponeng are immense,” st...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
August 14, 2019
|
As I write and you read, the world economy is getting pummeled, one blow after another, by demand destruction, as economies grind to a screeching halt due to unprecedented restrictions on economic and social activity owing to the relentless spread of the covid-19 coronavirus...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
April 7, 2020
|
Donald Trump appears to have torn a page from Ahead of the Herd’s manual for recharging the US economy. In an earlier article we said what the global economy really needs, in this low-growth, spending-stalled environment brought about by the pandemic, is...
Richard (Rick) Mills
|
June 19, 2020
|